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1632 First attempt to build a harbour at Trevaunance Cove, but away by winter storms.
1684 Second attempt to build a harbour at Trevaunance Cove, again washed away by winter storms.
1699 Third attempt to build a harbour at trevaunance Cove, succeeds. It was wrecked by a storm in 1705.
1705 Third harbour at Trevaunance Cove, (1699) is destroyed by a storm.
1709 Fourth harbour at Trevaunance Cove is commenced.
1710 Fourth harbour at Trevaunance Cove is completed.
1780 The Blue Hills mines nr St Agnes closes. They became too deep to pump by waterwheel.
1792 Act of parliament passed for the construction of a pier at Trevaunance Cove and work commenced immediately.
1810 The Blue Hills mines nr St Agnes reopen (closed 1780), pumped by steam.
1846 Queen Victoria visits the Polberro Mine in St Agnes, Cornwall.
1876 Construction of the Chapel of Rest at St Agnes which now houses the Town Museum.
1889 Closure of the Wheal Coates.
1897 The Blue Hills mines nr St. Agnes close through foreign competition.
1903 GWR Chacewater to Perranporth branch line (via St. Agnes) opened in Cornwall.
1914 Winter storms destroy the harbour at Trevaunance Cove.
1915 A storm breaches the North Quay of the harbour at Trevaunance, St Agnes, Cornwall.
1924
Blue Hills first used on the MCC's Lands End Trial. Initially this was the road leading up from Trevallas Coombe past the bottom of the current section - at the time the road was un-surfaced.
1928 Electricity supply brought to St Agnes, Cornwall.
1936 Current Blue Hills section first used ie the track leading off from the tarmac road and up the cliff. This happened when the road was surfaced. The MCC owns the current track.
1958 Ken Jones finds a seal washed up on the beach near his St. Agnes home and establishes a seal sanctuary in his garden.
1963 GWR Chacewater to Newquay branch line closed in Cornwall.
1966 RNLI decides a Lifeboat Station is needed between Newquay and St Ives on the north Cornish coast, St Agnes picked as a good location.
1967 BBC's Blue Peter Appeal for paperback books buys four Inshore Life Boats (ILBs), Blue Peter IV Ilb stationed at St Agnes.
1967
Supertanker Torrey Canyon carrying 119,328 tons of oil runs aground on the Seven Stones Reef, Isles of Scilly, causing fouling of the north and south coasts of Cornwall by oil.
1968 Blue Peter IV Lifeboat stationed at St Agnes in time for the summer season.
1970 Permanent boathouse built for the St Agnes Lifeboat.
1975 The National Seal Sanctuary founded in 1958 by Ken Jones at his home in St Agnes moves to a larger site at Gweek on the river Helford, still in operation today and well worth a visit.
1976 BBC Blue Peter programme provides second Blue Peter IV lifeboat at St. Agnes.
1983 Formation of the St Agnes Museum Trust.
1985 Third Blue Peter IV lifeboat provided by the BBC programme stationed at St Agnes.
1992 First opening of St Agnes Museum, Cornwall. Well worth a visit open every day from Easter to October.
Note: The information given here has been obtained from other sites and
should be verified before it is used in any projects.
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